Launch
🌍 Plate Party Challenge Simulation
Collaboration
Content Expertise
MS-ESS2-3
Submission Required
Students participate in a fast-paced whole-class simulation where groups build life-sized paper "plates" and physically model divergent, convergent, and transform movement. Every 5–7 minutes, teams rotate to a new boundary type and observe cause-and-effect outcomes (mountain building, seafloor spreading, earthquakes). Students record surprising patterns and questions in their Tectonic Investigation Field Notebook.
Plan day
Day 1
Duration
15 min
Grouping
Whole Class
Steps
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